Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...

There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...

Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...